David Henley's Blog (3)

My last post garnered some attention but only for one portion of it, that's what you get for running on too long. A lot of people seemed to like the idea of an IMDB for books, or rather an IBDB. But I actually concur with one commenter who remarked that Amazon largely have this covered. Amazon may not be infallible, but it is such a handy and readily available repository of data that it is not unheard of for publishers and agents in the industry to check it for information on their own titles an… Continue

This post is bouncing off the Jamie Low webcast, thank you to the O'Reilly team for setting that up. Also by the recent discussion started by Richard Herley about a dedicated book review site. Now I don't entirely agree with setting up another review site. We already have Amazon, Shelfari, etc and to me repeating this process is akin to reinventing the wheel when we already have enough of them. And, really, you c… Continue

Recently I've become involved in a project which I hope will survive. After spending a year in Paris my partner has decided to begin a new literary journal. Partly this is a creative exercise for her but for myself, as the production controller, I'm trying to turn it into an experiment in building an online format and to sidestep international borders. So progress so far, if anyone can think of other thing to please let me know, I can be your guinea pig. • There is a website, www.nopoetrymag.c… Continue